The Ivory King: A popular history of the elephant and its allies by Holder

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Author Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
Title The Ivory King: A popular history of the elephant and its allies
Contents Natural history of the elephant -- Habits and ways of elephants -- The intelligence of the elephant -- The mammoth -- Three and four tusked elephants (mastodons) -- Jumbo -- How Asiatic elephants are captured alive -- Asiatic elephants in captivity -- Hunting the Asiatic elephant -- The white elephant -- Elephants in Ceylon -- Rogue elephants -- Hunting the African elephant -- Baby elephants -- Trick elephants -- Elephants and their friends -- Tuskers at work -- Ivory -- The elephant in the arts -- Elephants in the amphitheatre -- The elephant in pageantry -- War elephants of modern Asia -- War elephants of Alexander the Great and his successors -- War elephants of the Romans and Carthaginians -- Proboscidian fictions -- Bibliography.
Credits Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language English
LoC Class QL: Science: Zoology
Subject Elephants
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EBook-No. 66546
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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